Spinoza on monism

Spinoza believed that there was only one substance in reality, which he called 'God or nature'. A number of leading contemporary philosophers have defendedmonism, this strange and beautiful idea that the cosmos is the source of all being. This book explores both the historical roots of the monism in Spinoza, and its flowering in the 21st century. PHILIP GOFF is a philosopher of mind and a metaphysician. He has lectured at Birmingham, UK, was a research fellow with the AHRC project 'Phenomenal Qualities' at the University of Hertfordshire, UK,and is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. His main philosophical aim is to argue against physicalism about consciousness. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - PART I: MONISM IN CONTEMPORARY METAPHYSICS - Monism: The Priority of the Whole; 'J.Schaffer - 'Existence Monism Trumps Priority Monism; 'T.Horgan' & 'M.PotrD - 'Why the World has Parts: Reply to Horgan and PotrD ; 'J.Schaffer - 'Against Monism; 'E.J.Lowe - 'There Is More Than One Thing;' P.Goff - 'The World as We Know It; 'R.Healey -'On the Common Sense Argument for Monism; 'D.O'Conaill' & 'T.E.Tahko - 'Substances Stressed; 'J.Heil - 'PART II: MONISM IN SPINOZA - Spinoza on Compositionand Priority; 'G.Guigon - 'Why Spinoza Is Not an Eleatic Monist (Or Why Diversity Exists); 'Y.T.Melamed - 'Spinoza's Monism and the Reality Of The Finite; 'S.Nadler - 'Spinoza's Monism? What Monism?; 'M.Laerke - 'Spinoza's Demonstration of Monism: A New Line of Defense; 'M.Kulstad - 'Explanatory Completeness and Spinoza's Monism; 'R.N.Goldstein - 'Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27948-3
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 16/12/2011
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• Idioma: Inglés